I never cared that your father was the weatherman in this small town. He still is. Every time I hear his voice on the radio I’m sick to my stomach. There are demons that chase girls like us. They teach us to fight back, to stand up for ourselves, to file reports, save other girls, and to love ourselves.

“I loved the first one so much and I am literally terrified that the second, and now the third, cannot possibly live up to the first. I don’t want to soil my experience and elation with the first book by reading a mediocre second.”

I don’t know what I was thinking, it was wonderful. It wasn’t quite as magnificent as the first, but it was worth it, a good edition to the first. And I will say this much, I knew it, and I was right. If I didn’t know there was a third book I probably would have thrown this one down and burst into fits of tears. It was good.